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...Prince Charles, as he addressed a crowd of 18,000 last week after waiting through 105 minutes of learned perorations celebrating Harvard University's 350th anniversary. Not that H.R.H. had any reason to worry. No stranger to pomp and circumstance, Charles (B.A., Cambridge, 1970) was resplendent in his academic gown. He scored high marks with self-deprecating quips ("Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen. I am used to being regarded as an anachronism") and a serious speech, which he wrote himself, on the dangers of allowing the teaching of technology to supersede humanistic values ("A good man, as the Greeks...
...relationship between Harvard and Cambridge should not be a tale of two cities, a story of the haves and the have nots. The marriage between town and academic gown cannot last another 350 years if Cambridge's largest insitution stands in isolation from the rest of the city...
...Globe published a 72-page magazine sectionon "Harvard at 350" last Sunday and will have 12reporters and eight photographers covering theevent itself. The magazine provides the onlycoverage in the media of the ups and (mostly)downs of town-gown relations, and the onlyextensive discussion of women at Harvard. The restof the special supplement, however, provides onlya conventional view of the institution and theevent...
...second husband, the Argentine polo ace Hector Barrantes, the final carriage in the procession, the gold-black-and-burgundy Glass Coach, pulled up outside. As trumpets sounded and thousands roared, out stepped the Titian-haired bride, royal in her carriage and radiant in her flowing ivory satin gown and 17 1/2- foot train. By her side stood her proud father, "Major Ron," Prince Charles' polo manager...
...Israel telling her mom, "I want to stay and help." Recalls Elizabeth: "This was at a stage when she wouldn't make her bed. But she had the Sigourney Serious Look -- and when you see it, you act." Now the Wasp princess trades in her deb gown for khaki and operates the potato-peeling machine at the Hill of Isaac Kibbutz. "I tried to improve the machine's performance, and for a $ while it did work faster. So fast that it blew up. The supervisor said I was a humiliation to the Jewish race." That adventure ended in three weeks...